This section contains language functions and forms that native English speakers acquire mostly before entering school or naturally at home. These language functions and forms, however, need to be explicitly taught to English language learners and may be taught to ELLs at all grade levels and as the need and context arise. The contrast between form and function in language may be illustrated using a simple biological parallel. If doctors studied only the anatomy of the human body (assuming that it could be studied exclusively) they would not be able to heal us. To cure us they need to understand the physiology of our bodies, the interrelated functions of systems, organs, cells and genes... The study of forms or parts of speech used to be called Morphology. It is the Anatomy of a language. (Viking Coe, U of Houston, 1994). Forms of a language deal with the internal grammatical structure of words. The relationship between “bo...
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